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/prˈaɪvətli/ Listen

adverb

Privately adv.

In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others.

In a manner affecting an individual; personally; not officially; as, he is not privately benefited.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Privately" Quotes from Famous Books

... he were merely going for a day's pleasuring. From the firing of the first gun in the cause of freedom her soul had been filled with patriotic zeal, and now she rejoiced in honoring her country by cheerfully giving the man she loved to its service, although she privately echoed her wish of long ago when she had exclaimed, "Oh, how I wish I ...

— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... I,' says Ranke, 'nothing was more seductive than secrecy. The contradictions in his conduct entangled him in embarrassments, in which his declarations, if always true in the sense he privately gave them, were only a hair's-breadth removed from actual, and even from intentional, untruth.'—Whether traceable to descent, or to the evil influence of Buckingham and the intriguing atmosphere of the Spanish ...

— The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History • Francis T. Palgrave

... March 4 fell on Sunday, the oath of office was privately administered to Hayes on Saturday evening, March ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... privately-printed full reports of Commander Beauchamp's speeches (very carefully corrected by him) ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... lucky. I am an expert on nothing—nothing, anyhow, that matters. I envy all you experts tremendously. When I see a cigar-expert listening to his cigar before putting it in his mouth I wish that I were as great a man as he. Privately sometimes I have listened to a cigar, but it has told me nothing. The only way I can tell whether it is good or bad is by smoking it. Even then I could not tell you (without the assistance of the band) ...

— If I May • A. A. Milne

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